The Bully – He uses intimidation to control his partner by: shouting, glaring, sulking, driving too fast and firing questions at her without giving her a chance to answer. TL;DR, it's probably fine if you're a vanilla, abled, cishet white woman who has never done any sex work or even a bit of amateur porn, but if you're anything outside that box, this book might be dangerous for you, so please take care reading it. They do not realise that they decide to use violence when they realise that their other tactics are failing.

It also helped by categorising these abusers and identified the common excuses these abusers may try to use to blame or minimise their behaviours. News from Nowhere will not obtain personal information from other organisations, and will not share, pass on or sell personal information that we hold about individuals to anyone else.Whilst she begins the book with some token acknowledgments that DV can happen in same-sex relationships, the book overwhelmingly assumes the reader is a cishet woman. When we women are on the re ceiving end of violence and abuse we often ask ourselves this qu estion.

The Persuader – This persona usually comes into play if she leaves the relationship or threatens to. This is a problem because people of colour are so often excluded from discourse on DV and, as we've seen with how the assumption the audience is a cishet woman (I'm a bi .She is extremely dedicated and knowledgeable, having her on my side when dealing with someone as persistent.